By Josh Long Spring Integration 4.1 was just released and it includes a lot of great new features! One of my favorites? Smart integration with the Spring 4 WebSocket support. Now you can compose a integration flow whose final destination is a WebSocket client. There is also support for acting as the client to a WebSocket service. In order to compile it, you will need Java 8 (we make heavy use of lambdas here) and the following Maven dependencies: groupId:org.springframework.integration, artifactId:spring-integration-java-dsl, version: 1.0.0.RC1. groupId:org.springframework.integration…